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Yahoo to discuss selling core business: sources

Directors will also discuss whether to proceed with spinoff of Alibaba stake

Thu, Dec 03, 2015 - 5:50 AM

Although Ms Mayer is credited with stabilising the company, which was in rapid decline, Yahoo has introduced no breakthrough products during her three years at the helm and has fallen further and further behind competitors such as Facebook and Google.

PHOTOS: REUTERS, AFP

Although Ms Mayer is credited with stabilising the company, which was in rapid decline, Yahoo has introduced no breakthrough products during her three years at the helm and has fallen further and further behind competitors such as Facebook and Google.

PHOTOS: REUTERS, AFP

San Francisco

THE board of Yahoo will discuss potentially selling off the beleaguered Internet company's core business during a series of meetings this week, people briefed on the plans said on Tuesday.

Directors of the company will also discuss whether to move forward with a